WHEREAS, O. D. Cook rendered such assistance during the whole of said fiscal years and has not received full pay therefor; therefore, Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia: That the attorney general be and he is hereby authorized to draw his warrant upon the auditor for said unexpended balance and apply the same to the payment of the said O. D. Čook for his said services. [Adopted March 12, 1881.] [No. 20.] JOINT RESOLUTION providing for the payment of postage on certain acts to be distributed. Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia: That the auditor be required out of his contingent fund, to furnish postage stamps to the clerk of the house of delegates to enable said clerk to mail the acts as they are published in sheets to the members of this legislature. [Adopted March 14, 1881 | [No. 21] JOINT RESOLUTION in reference to the hiring of convicts. Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia : That the board of public works and the directors of the penitentiary are hereby prohibited from hiring or letting the labor of any convict in the penitentiary for a longer period than one year, unless the same be let or hired for a price which, if obtained for each convict in the penitentiary, will make the institution self-sustaining. [Adopted March 15, 1881.] CORPORATIONS. JUNCTION IRON COMPANY. I, Sobieski Brady, secretary of the state of West Virginia, hereby certify that an agreement duly acknowledged and accompanied by the proper affidavits, has been this day delivered to me; which agreement is in the words and figures following: The undersigned agree to become a corporation by the name of Junction Iron Company, for the purpose of carrying on within the states of West Virginia and Ohio the business of dealing in iron and its various products, and of manufacturing the same in any and all of its different branches, mining and dealing in ores, coal and limestone, and conducting such other business as may be advantageous and incidential to the manufacture of iron in any and all of its various and different branches, whatsoever; and for the farther purpose of buying, selling and exchanging merchandise generally. And for the further purpose of doing and carrying on a towing and transportation business, with steamboats and barges on the Ohio river and other western rivers, which corporation shall keep its principal office or place of business at the city of Wheeling, in the county of Ohio, and state of West Virginia, and is to expire on the twelfth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine (1899), and for the purpose of forming the said corporation, we have subscribed the sum of five hundred dollars to the capital thereof, and have paid in on said subscription the sum of fifty (50) dollars, and desire the privilege of increasing the said capital by sales of additional shares, from time to time, to two hundred thousand (200,000) dollars in all. The capital so subscribed is divided into shares of one hundred (100) dollars each, which are held by the undersigned respectively, as follows, that is to say: By Daniel C. List, of the city of Wheeling, West Virginia, one share; Samuel Laughlin, of the city of Wheeling, West Virginia, one share; Daniel McGarry, of Millport, Columbiana county, Ohio, one share; John J. Jones, of the city of Wheeling, West Virginia, one share; George A. Dean, of Mingo Junction, Jefferson county, Ohio, one share; And the capital to be hereafter sold is to be divided into shares of the like amount. Given under our hands, this twelfth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine. DANIEL C. LIST. Wherefore, The corporators named in the said agreement, and who have signed the same, and their successors and assigns, are hereby declared to be, from this date until the twelfth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, a corporation by the name and for the purpose set forth in said agreement. Given under my hand and the great seal of the said state, [G. S.] at the city of Wheeling, this thirteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. SOBIESKI BRady, Secretary of State. JACKSON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL ASSOCIATION. I, Sobieski Brady, secretary of the state of West Virginia, hereby certify that an agreement duly acknowledged and accompanied by the proper affidavits, has been this day delivered to me; which agreement is in the words and figures following: The undersigned agree to become a corporation by the name of the "Jackson County Agricultural and Mechanical Association," for the purpose of promoting and encouraging agricultural, mechanical and manufacturing interests; encouraging the raising and improvement of live stock and of acquiring real estate for fair grounds, building, etc., by purchase or otherwise; which corporation shall keep its principal office at Ripley, Jackson county, West Virginia, and to expire on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. And for the purpose of forming said corporation we have subscribed the sum of one hundred and fifteen dollars to the capital stock thereof, and have paid in on said subscription the sum of eleven and one-half dollars (11.50), and desire the privilege of increasing said capital by sales of additional shares from time to time to ten thousand dollars in all. The capital so subscribed is divided into shares of one dollar each, which are held by the undersigned respectively, as follows, and the shares hereafter acquired, are to be the same in value : J. M. Greer, five shares, five dollars; N. S. Sayre, five shares, five dollars; Wherefore, the corporators named in the said agreement, and who have signed the same, and their successors and assigns, are hereby declared to be, from this date until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, a corporation by the name and for the purpose set forth in said agreement. Given under my hand and the great seal of the said state, [G. S.] at the city of Wheeling, this eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. SOBIESKI BRADY, Secretary of State. FAIRMONT AND FARMINGTON PISCATORIAL I, Sobieski Brady, secretary of the state of West Virginia, hereby certify that an agreement duly acknowledged and accompanied by the proper affidavits, has been this day delivered to me; which agreement is in the words and figures following: The undersigned agree to become a corporation by the name of the "Fairmont and Farmington Piscatorial Association," for the purpose of raising and propagating fish in Marion county, West Virginia, which corporation shall keep its principal office in Fairmont, Marion county, West Virginia, and is to expire on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven. And for the purpose of forming the said corporation, we have subscribed the sum of fifty dollars to the capital thereof, and have paid in on said subscription the sum of forty dollars, and desire the privilege of increasing the said capital by sales of additional shares, from time to time, to five thousand dollars in all. The capital so subscribed is divided into shares of ten dollars each, which are held by the undersigned, respectively, as follows, that is to say: By Lindsay B. Haymond, of Fairmont, Marion county, West Virginia, one share; William E. Hough, of Fairmont, Marion county, West Virginia, one share; James F.Hough, of Fairmont, Marion county, West Virginia, one share; Elza L. Basnett, of Fairmont, Marion county, West Virginia, one share; Patrick Murphy, of Farmington, Marion county, West Virginia, one share. And the capital to be hereafter sold is to be divided into shares of thel ike amount. Given under our hands, this twelfth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight. LINDSAY B. HAYMOND, JAMES F. HOUGH, ELZA L. BASNETT, Wherefore, the corporators named in the said agreement, and who have signed the same, and their successors and assigns, are hereby declared to be, from this date until the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, a corporation by the name and for the purpose set forth in said agreement. Given under my hand and the great seal of the said state, [G. S.] at the city of Wheeling, this twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine. SOBIESKI BRADY, Secretary of State. THE CEREDO CEMETERY ASSOCIATION. I, Sobieski Brady, secretary of the state of West Virginia, hereby certify that an agreement duly acknowledged and accompanied by the proper affidavits, has been this day delivered to me; which agreement is in the words and figures following: The undersigned agree to become a corporation under the provisions of chapter fifty-four of the code of West Virginia and the acts. amending the same by the name of "The Ceredo Cemetery Association," for the purpose of purchasing a tract or parcel of land in the vicinity of the town of Ceredo, Wayne county, West Virginia, and improving the same by fencing, grading, laying out walks, alleys, passages, etc., and sub-dividing it into squares and lots for burial purposes; and selling lots principally for the accommodation of the people of Ceredo and its vicinity; which corporation shall keep its principal place of business in said town of Ceredo; and is to expire on the first day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine. And for the purpose of forming said corporation, the undersigned have subscribed one thousand dollars to the capital |